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• Youngest Infants at Risk of Death While Seated

  July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Cases are very rare, but babies younger than one month ...

• Studies Track Treatment Outcomes for Kids With ADHD

  July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) showed sustained improvement ...

• Tonsillectomy Shouldn't Dull Taste: Study

  July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Tonsil removal (tonsillectomy) does not cause permanent changes to a ...

• Report Details Gains, Reversals for U.S. Children

  July 13 (HealthDay News) -- The number of U.S. children not covered by health insurance ...

• Convenience Stores Most Likely to Sell Cigarettes to Kids

  July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in 10 tobacco sales in U.S. gas station ...

• High School Football Brings Brain Trauma Dangers

  July 9 (HealthDay News) -- The number of catastrophic head injuries in high school football ...

• Good Parents Are Good Sports, Too

  July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Sports can be essential to a child's development, and many ...

• Naturopathy an Option for Some Kids

  July 5 (HealthDay News) -- About one in six naturopathic physicians include pediatric patients in ...

• School Nurses Key to Preventing Heart Disease

  June 29 (HealthDay News) -- School nurses are crucial to promoting heart health among children ...

• Rise in Child Chronic Illness Could Swamp Health Care

  June 27 (HealthDay News) -- As more American children eat poorly and exercise less, rates ...

• Genes Raise Post-Vaccination Fever Risk

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they've spotted eight common genetic variations linked ...

• Standard Vitamin A Dose Best for African Children

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Doubling the recommended dose of vitamin A does not benefit ...

• Candy Cigarettes May Lead to the Real Thing

  June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Childhood puffs on candy cigarettes may lead to adult smoking ...

• To the First-Born Go the Smarts

  June 22 (HealthDay News) -- First-born children possess IQs that are 2.3 points higher, on ...

• Smokers' Infants Have High Nicotine Levels

  June 20 (HealthDay News) -- In homes where at least one parent smokes, infants have ...

• European Kids Using Banned Sports-Doping Drugs

  June 20 (HealthDay News) -- More than one percent of 11-year-old French athletes admitted to ...

• More Research That Secondhand Smoke Harms Kids

  June 6 (HealthDay News) -- Even minor exposure to secondhand smoke can harm the cardiovascular ...

• Many Teen Girls Use Steroids

  June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Teenage girls who admit using anabolic steroids are less likely ...

• Preschoolers Don't Need Math to Do Math

  May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Five-year-olds can come to approximate solutions for addition and subtraction ...